Self-correcting quantum memory in a thermal environment

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Chesi, Stefano ^a   Röthlisberger, Beat ^a   Loss, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ERROR PROTECTION; FINITE TEMPERATURES; LARGE CLASS; LONG RANGE INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE; QUANTUM MEMORIES; SELF-CORRECTION; SPIN MODELS; SYSTEM SIZE; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TIME DYNAMIC;

CODES (SYMBOLS); QUANTUM OPTICS;

INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 77955786934     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.022305     Document Type: Article

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